Top 10 Most Disappointing
         Rock and Roll Offspring

I take Chinese lessons at my neighborhood Starbucks.  At Starbucks, as in America, they play music that they deem good coffee-drinking music.  A few months ago, it was only old standards-- Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald and of course, Ray Charles.  The last few weeks I've had my lesson, I noticed they had modernized their music selection.  They got rid of the old stuff and decided to play only one CD over and over again.  Not my favorite CD, but also not something that offends me.  It is Norah Jones's "Come Away With Me."  While this album was released in 2002, apparently it has just been discovered in China.  Not a big surprise.  So when I'm nodding at my Chinese teacher pretending to listen to her, really I am thinking about Norah Jones and making lists in my head.  Top 5 favorite female singers (she wouldn't make it), Top 5 Indian musicians (don't really know any others) and finally, most successful musical offspring.  Norah, daughter of Indian sitar legend Ravi Shankar, would certainly make that list along with people like Hank Williams Jr., Rufus Wainwright and the annoying as ever, Enrique Iglesias.  While I don't listen to these artists, you can't argue with their success.  There's a flip side to that coin.  What about all the other musical offspring that haven't achieved a fraction of the success of their parent?  Or what about those performers who are good but their parent is so famous that a career in music, when compared to the parent, can only be seen as a failure?  Here is this week's special:

 The Top 10 Most Disappointing Rock and Roll Offspring

 

 

 

 

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